Thursday, 8 December 2011

BRIEF NEWS UPDATE: 09.12.2011


Bomb attack kills three soldiers in Karachi
KARACHI: Three soldiers were killed and four others wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in the country’s biggest city Karachi on Friday, police said.
“Three troops from Pakistan rangers were killed and four were hurt, it was a remote control bomb,” Sharfuddin Memon, a spokesman for the home ministry in Sindh province told AFP.
No group immediately claimed responsibility.

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Mohammed Saleem Mansoori

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